Wedding planning guides.
Field notes on planning a wedding away from home — the paperwork, the pacing, the weather of a particular week in May. Written by the destination desk, revised when prices or laws move, never by committee.
- Pieces in circulation
- 44
- Destinations covered
- 13
- Last pressing
- A Dubrovnik wedding
A Mallorca wedding, by the book.
A Mallorca wedding for 70 guests runs €45,000 to €85,000 all in, with finca and coastal-villa venues at the heart of it.
- Cost, 70 guests
- €45 – 85k
- Best months
- May · June · September
- Reading
- 13 min read
- Revised
- 20 Apr 2026
Where to marry abroad, and why there.
Each destination gets a proper dossier — venues, cost, weather, paperwork, and the honest reasons it might not suit you.
A Mallorca wedding, by the book.
A Mallorca wedding for 70 guests runs €45,000 to €85,000 all in, with finca and coastal-villa venues at the heart of it.
An Algarve wedding, field guide.
An Algarve wedding for 70 guests runs €30,000 to €60,000 all in, with quintas and coastal villas as the venue backbone.
An Amalfi Coast wedding, by the book.
An Amalfi Coast wedding for 70 guests runs €80,000 to €150,000 all in, with Ravello villas and Positano cliffside hotels at the heart of it.
A Tuscan wedding, by the book.
A Tuscany wedding for 70 guests runs €55,000 to €110,000 including VAT. Private Chianti villas, Val d'Orcia agriturismi, and restored borghi make up the venue backbone.
A Lake Como wedding, by the book.
A Lake Como wedding for 70 guests runs €90,000 to €170,000 including VAT. Historic lakefront villas (Balbiano, Balbianello, Pizzo) are the venue backbone; most weddings split…
A Santorini wedding, by the book.
A Santorini wedding for 70 guests runs €55,000 to €100,000 including VAT. Caldera-rim hotels (Canaves Oia, Mystique, Andronis) and cliffside villas are the venue backbone.
A Provence wedding, by the book.
A Provence wedding for 70 guests runs €60,000 to €120,000 including VAT. Restored Luberon mas and Alpilles bastides are the venue backbone.
A Tulum wedding, by the book.
A Tulum wedding for 70 guests runs $55,000 to $120,000 USD including IVA. Full buyouts of beachfront boutique hotels (Nomade, Sanará, Be Tulum, Habitas) are the venue backbone.
A Mykonos wedding, by the book.
A Mykonos wedding for 70 guests runs €60,000 to €120,000 including VAT. Full hotel buyouts (Bill & Coo, Cavo Tagoo, Kenshō) and beach-club takeovers (Scorpios, Nammos,…
A Cabo wedding, by the book.
A Cabo San Lucas wedding for 70 guests runs $65,000 to $140,000 USD including IVA. Luxury resort buyouts along the Tourist Corridor (One&Only Palmilla, Las Ventanas,…
A Maldives wedding, by the book.
A Maldives wedding for 50 guests runs $200,000 to $400,000 USD, the highest per-person cost of any mainstream destination.
A Bali wedding, by the book.
A Bali wedding for 70 guests runs $50,000 to $130,000 USD including PPN. Private villa compounds, Uluwatu cliff chapels, and resort buyouts are the venue backbone.
The fifteen best destinations, 2026.
Fifteen destinations we book regularly, sorted by region and tier. The cheapest premium European option is the Algarve (€30–60k for 70 guests, EWR direct summer).
The runway, in order.
What to do, when — and what it will cost. The pieces we reach for most often in the first thirty minutes of a planning call.
The paperwork, in plain English.
Civil ceremonies abroad are a lead-time problem, not a difficult one. We explain the process country by country.
The manner of the thing.
Destination weddings ask more of guests than a weekend in the next town. These are the pieces we hand to couples who want to ask it well.
For the guests, pass along.
Written to be forwarded to your invitees — practical, warm, and short enough to read at the gate.
Read these first, if you’re new.
A starter’s triptych — the three pieces that answer most of the questions we hear in the first planning call.
How to choose a destination wedding location.
Budget, line by line.
Destination-wedding etiquette, for both sides.
Correspondence
from the atelier.
A short note when a destination goes live, prices shift, or the paperwork changes. We don’t write it unless we’ve something to say.
Or ask a question directly.
Write to the atelier. We’ll point you to the right guide, the right venue, and sometimes away from the island you had in mind.
Written on the ground, not in a model.
The journal is Walter Lafky, Perrie Lundstrom, and the destination desk at the atelier, with fixers in each country we cover. We visit every destination at least once a year, keep working relationships with the venues we recommend, and revise each guide when the paperwork or the prices change.
- Pieces published
- 44
- Review cadence
- Twice yearly, per piece
- Next scheduled revision
- A Dubrovnik wedding · Twice yearly, per piece
- Fact-checkers
- The destination desk
- Corrections
- hello@aisle.wedding
- Publisher
- Aisle · Est. MMXXIV